Lisa Ko

Lisa Ko is the author of The Leavers, which won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Award for Socially Engaged Fiction. Her writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2016, The New York Times, O. Magazine, Buzzfeed, Apogee Journal, Narrative, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, among others.